Word: clapboarded
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...been muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...morning last week Peter Higginson, seven, and his blond brother John, four, awoke as usual at 7 o'clock. After the winter they had spent in boarding school, the comfortable, red-&-white clapboard house in Connecticut's quiet Litchfield Hills was strange, lonely, still. The nearest neighbor lived half a mile away. Behind the house, a dark wood stretched away to a hillside. Beyond the white picket fence in front was a little-used highway...
Round Six. In Lewistown, Mont., Maynard Stapleton painted a sixth blue stripe around his clapboard house, to tally the sixth Nazi plane shot down by his former neighbor, A.A.F. Lieut. Robert Welden...
Production began June 1. Nine hundred construction workers and mill hands crowded into the five rows of new grey clapboard bungalows "downstairs"by the mill. Another 1,000-workers, wives & children-moved into the .upper town, planted grass around their houses and dormitories...
...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...